Journal o/ Nannoplankton

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27th Annual Meeting, Gennan Palaeobotany & Palynology Working Group, Tiibingen, 1999.........
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NEWS & GOSSIP
Compiled byJackie Burnett on behalfofthe JNA Committee
INADUES INFORMATIONWith tllis issue oftheJNR, we have instituted a new method
to help you identi(v your dues responsibility. Please notethe year after your name on your mailing label. This datetells you the year through which your dues are paid:
1999 or later- Dues are paid up.
1998- Dues are paid up (please consider paying for 1999
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Your assistance in keeping your dues paid is greatly
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POST-DOCTORAL POSITION IN
NANNOPIANKTON RESEARCH, UNIVERSITY OFNORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
Available July 1st, 1999
The appointment will initially be for two years with thepotential for renewal. The position also comes withpotential for teaching. Salary and research projects arenegotiable. If interested, please contact Tim Bralower, Dept.
of Geology, University ofNorth Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
27599-3315.
Tim Bra lower
bralower@emai l.unc. edu
INA TAXONOMIC COMMITTEE-SHORT REPORTThe list of all calcareous nannofossil taxa currently used isnear completion. lt will be available on the Micropaleontology Press website : http://nimidi.amnh.org/
micropress.html by the end of January, 1999. Although
everyone is welcome to consult and comment on the list,
only members of tl1e Taxonomic Committee will be contacted
bye-mail as soon as the list is available for consultation.
Procedures and time-tables will be suggested at the sametime.
As a reminder, the list has been compiled from thecalcareous nannofossil database, NannoStrat, using thedata-manager CompuStrat. Both arc available from
Micmpaleontology Press (for infonnation contact Dr. J .A.
van Couvering: vanc@amnh.org).
We look forward to a productive year in 1999!
Jvfarie-Pierre A ubry & Aionique Bonnemaison
on behalf ofthe JN4 Taxonomic Committee
aubryi@isem.univ-montp2jr &m _bonnemaison@onenet. cam. ar

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS UPDATE
Due to a misunderstanding (Jackic docsn 't know what year
it is!) , the deadline published in the last issue of the JNR
for submission of candidates for the election of a newpresident of the INA was erroneous. You can still submit
candidates (to Shirley van Heck) until June, 1999.
Remember, candidates should fulfil three criteria: I. theyshould be a member of IN A; 2. they should have e-mail ; 3.
they should be supported by at least one other person.
Shirley van Heckshi rley. s. e. vanheck@openmai I.xg /2. bspser. si m is. cam
FORTHCOMING EVENTSEUG10 (European Union ofGeosciences), Stmsbourg,
Fnmce,
28th March-1stAl)ri!, 1999
Details at: http://eost.u-strasbg.fr/EUG
The program for EUG I 0 is now available and they are open
for abstracts- all details appear on their website. This is a
BIG meeting, with some 86 symposia grouped into 12
themes . Two of the themes have high palaeontologicalcontent: Theme B Climate - past and present and Theme C
Life on Earth -origin and evolution. So I have listed the
Symposium topics from these, below. In particular, I would
like to draw attention to Symposium ,C6 PALAEOCOWGICALPERSPECTIVES ON FORM AND FUNCTION'.
which is being organised by Richard Fortcy(raf@n hm. ac.uk) and myself. We have several goodspeakers arranged for this, spanning vertebrate ,invertebrate and micropalaeontology, but are still certainly
open to more submissions.
EUGlO deadlines: abstract submission: 15th
November, 1998; travel grant application: 15th November,
1998; registration payment (reduced rate): 31st January,
1999; hotel reservation: 28th February. 1999. The EUG 10
second circui<Jr will have been sent out in early October
I 998. The EUG I 0 detailed programme will be finalised at
the beginning of 1999.
The most relevant themes and symposia topalaeontologists are:
Theme C: Life on Eatih- ol'igin and evolution:
Cl Geophysical and geochemical constraints on molecular
evolution. Convenors: Stcven J. Moj zsis (Los Angeles).sjm@argon.ess.ucla.edu, M.J . Whitehouse (Stockholm);
C2 Vendian and Ca mbrian biotic evolution. Convenors:
Ma lgor zata
Moczydlowska- Vidal(Uppsala)ma/go. vidal@pal.uu.se, G.E . Budd (Uppsala), E. Linan(Zaragoza); C3 Impacts, cratering and mass extinction.
Convenors: Birger Schnlitz (Gotcborg) BJRGER@gvc.gu.se,
C. Koeberl (Wien); C4 Global change - the fate of life on
Earth. Convenors : Bjorn Malmgren (Goteborg)
bjorn.ma/mgren@marine-geologv..gu. se, H. Thierstein(Zurich); CS The deep biosphere. Convenors: Nils Holm
(Stockholm) nilsholm(ii)g eo.su. se, J. Parkes (Bristol): C6
Palaeoecological perspectives on form and function.
Convenors:
JeremyR.
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Theme B Climate- past ami present:
B1: Holocene and Pleistocene decadal to millennia! scale
climate variability: the terrestrial record; B2: Holocene andPleistocene decadal to millennia! scale climate variability:
the marine record; B3: Linkages and feedbacks between
marine and terrestrial systems; B4: Glacial carbon cyclechanges; BS : Lake Drilling Projects- monitoring climatechange; B6 : New approaches in estimating marine andcontinental palaeotemperatures for the Cenozoic; B7:
Reconstruction of palaeoenvironmental conditions fromgeochemistry and microfossil records; B8 : Biological,
sedimentary and geochemical responses to mid-Cretaceous
tectonic/volcanic events; B10: Erosion. uplift, climate andthe biosphere; Btl: Astronomical cycles and the Earthsystem; B12: Marine fluxes and early diagenesis as related
to global biogeochemical cycles; 813: Methane hydrates
and the deep sub-seafloor biosphere.
Jeremy Young
jv@nhm.ae. uk
27th Annual Meeting of the German Working Groupof Palaeohotany & Palynology (APP)
May 12th-15th, 1999, Tuhingen,Germany
All colleagues and friends of palaeobotany are kindly
invited to attend this meeting. Sessions are planned forthe following topics: Morpholog_v of Land Plants (invited
speaker: K. J. Niklas, Jthaca, USA): Mesoroic & Palaeozoic
Terrestrial Ecosystems (invited speaker: H. Kerp ,Miinster, Gennany); Vegetation & Climate of the Ceno7.oic(invited speaker: T. Litt, Bonn, Gennany); Phytoplankton/
Aquatic Primary Productivity (invited speaker: H.
Brinkhuis , Utrecht , Netherlands); Databases in
Palaeobotany. Other papers are also welcome and may bepresented in an open session.
Schedule : May 12th: registration and informal
meeting; May 13th : presentation of oral and poster
contributions, genera I meeb ng of APP members; May 14th:
presentation of oral and poster contributions: in theevening, a reception at Hohentiibingen Castle will be held;
May 15th: excursion (Jurassic, Neogene and Quaternaryof SW Germany).
Meeting local it)': Situated on the banks of the River
Neckar, Tiibingen is located between the Swabian Alb andthe Black Forest (State ofBaden-Wiirttembcrg, Gennany).
Founded in 1477, theEberhard-Karls University has shaped
the old university town with flair. With approximately
80 000 inhabitants and 20 000 students, Ti.ibingen is a small
but lively town, in which traditional and student life meltwith each other. The picturesque town centre, characterised
by well-preserved, half-timbered buildings and street cafes
invite a longer stay. In the evening the romantic market
place is a favourite meeting point for young and old. The
wide spectrum of cultural events includes regular concerts,
theatre performances and internationally acclaimed art
exhibitions. Ti.ibingen is an important centre for service
industries, technological research and business in the
Neckar region.
All information (including registration form) isavailable on our wcbsite: http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/gco/
gpilpalacolapp/app.html

Conference addr-ess: APP 1999, c/o Angela Bruch.
Institute and Museum of Geology and Palaeontology,
Sigwartstr. 10, D-72076 Tiibingen, Gennany; Tel.: +49-707l/
2977547 or 2972489; fax : +49-7071/295727 ; e-mail:angela. brueh@uni-tueb ingen. deGeological Association- Mineralogical Association of
Canada (GAC-MAC) Annual Meeting, Sudbw-y, 1999
Sudhury, Ontario, Canada, May 26th-28th, 1999
Symposium - Impact Events and Extinctions: a special
session in honour of Glen Caldwell
Organisers: P. Copper (Laurentian University), O.A. Dixon(University of Ottawa). Jin Jisuo (University of Western
Ontario). Sponsored by the Paleontology Division of theGeological Association of Canada.
Sudbury, the site of a double extraterrestrial impact,
the l.8Ba Sudbury Basin, and the 37Ma Wanapitei Crater,
indenting the NE margins of the older structure, is anappropriate host to a special symposium on thecontroversial relationship between meteorite impacts, mass
extinctions, and the evolution of life. Did impacts alter thecourse of the history of life on planet Earth? Are impacts aregular and periodic feature and component of planetary
surface processes. like others? Or are impacts extraordinary
processes which dramatically change the global biota andreset the evolutionary clock? Contributors to this symposium, whether they be for or against impact origins ofsome or all mass extinctions, should reflect not only on thetinting <md chemical-stratigraphic signature of impacts, butalso on any atmospheric and oceanic events which may or
may not have changed life, particularly as recorded in thefive best -known mass extinctions: the Late Ordovician.
Late Devonian, end-Permian, end-Triassic and endCretaceous.
Those wishing to contribute a paper to a special
Festschrift conunemorating this symposium must submit
their papers by May 28th, 1999 for publication (contributors
need not present an oral paper or poster at the sessions) .
Contact: Dr. Paul Copper, Dept. of Earth Sciences,
Laurenban University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, P3E 2C6.
Tel. : (705) 675-1151 ; fax : (705) 673-6508; e-mail:pcopper@nieke/./aurentian.ea; or Dr. Jisuo Jin, Dept. ofEarth Sciences. University of Western Ontario, London.
Ontario. Canada. N6A 5B7. TeL: (519) 66 1-4061; fax: (519)661-3198: e-mail :jjin(ijyulian.uwo. ea
Deadline for abstract submission: January 15th,
1999 . Details for electronic submission at: httt>://www.laurcntian.ca/www/geolog)'/gacmac99.htm~V Douglas Boyee
wdb@zeppo.geosurv.gov.nf ea
Mary Anning and her Times: The Discovery of
British Palaeontology, 1820-1850
June 2nd-4th, 1999, Lyme Regis, UK
Tllis symposium will celebrate the bicentenary ofthebirthof Mary Anning ( 1799-184 7). bringing together
palaeontologists, historians and social scientists to createa picture ofMary Aiming's life, work and times. The fee isa mere £80, to include all sessions, a reception in the Philpot
Museum, the dinner. a geological walk and the Strawberry
Tea! Application forms from: Roger Clarke, Lyme Regis
Museum, Lyme Regis, Dorset, DT7 3QA, UK.

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This conference was brought to the Editor's
attention by Katharina von Salis, who has written two
reviews for the latest nanno book (P.R. Sown, Ed., 1998) inthis issue. The first is a straightforward scientific review,
the second is given from the perspective of gender (which
is a topic that Katharina has been investigating for someyears now).
l Second International Symposium on Biolo!,rical andEnvironmental Chemistry of DMS(P) and Related
ComJ)OOnds
University of Groningen, The Netherlands, 25-28th
August, 1999

11. The Role of Phaeo~ystis in Marine
Biogcochemical Cycles ;md Fluxes
University of Groningen, The Netherlands, 28-29th
August, 1999
During the last two decades, there has been growinginterest in the production of the volatile sulphur compound,
dimethyl sulphide (DMS) in marine ecosystems, and its
possible role in the biological regulation of global climate.
DMS makes up 50-60% of the total natural sulphuremissions to the atmosphere, and about 90% of this DMS
flux originates in marine environments. Whereas the firststudies were mainly done by marine and atmosphericchemists, interdisciplinary approaches have proved
increasingly worthwhile. It is now well established thatfluxes of DMS may vary by orders of magnitude in timeand space, but we are only beginning to understand thebiological processes that underlie this variation. In thisrespect , research on dimethylsulphoniopropionate(DMSP), the major precursor of DMS, is of utmost
importance. In addition to their important roles inbiogeochemistry, DMSP and related compounds have
many other interesting functions in organismal physiology,
as osmolytes, cryoprotectants, enerh'Y substrates, methyl
donors, and chemosensory cues.
A first, and very successful, interdisciplinary
symposium on DMSP, organised by R.P. Kiene, P.T.
Visscher, M. D. Keller and G.O. Kirst, was held in Alabama
in 1995. Since then, new insights into the production andregulation ofDMS and DMSP have emerged, and now is
the time to organise a second symposium.
We wish to build on the interdisciplinary research
theme by combining the DMSP symposium witll a second
meeting focusing on the microalgal genus, Phaeocystis.
This genus has a worldwide distribution and is known todominate entire ecosystems during its blooms. It is wellknown as a notorious DMS producer and blooms may act
as sinks for atmospheric C02. An important portion oftlle
global carbon and sulphur cycles is thus intimately linked
in this genus. A first symposium on this genus, entitled, The Ecology of Phaeocystis-dominated Ecosystems' , washeld under the auspices of the Conunission of the Europe<mCommunities in Brussels, in January, 1991. Since this
symposium, new knowledge has accumulated. Therefore,a second symposium will now be organised.
Tentative programmes for both symposia are given
below. The close connection between the two consecutive
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overlapping session, which will focus on the role of
Phaeocystis in the marine sulphur cycle. We recommend
participation in both of these related symposia, butattendance at just one symposium will be possible too.
The purpose of this preliminary announcement is
to assess the level of interest in the proposed meetings.
Please reply bye-mail as soon as possible, stating clearly
whether you wish to register your interest in attending the
DMSP symposium, the Phaeocystis symposium, or both
symposia. A first official announcement, which will include
registration information, will be sent to all those who areinterested in participation.
Finally, we would like to locate everyone who might
be interested so please provide us with names ofcolleagues, especially those who are newcomers to the
DMS(P) and Phaeocystis research fields since the last two
meetings. Feel free to pass this announcement along to
any colleagues who you think might be interested in these
symposia.
The local organising committee comprises: L.
Dijkhuizen, T.A. Hansen, J. Stefels, M. van Rijssel andW. W. C. Gieskes, all at the University of Groningen, The
Netherlands.
Tentative pmgrammes:
Symposium I (26-28th August, 1999, arrival on 25th)
Second International Symposium on Biological andEnvironmental Chemistry ofDMS(P) and Related Compounds. Session 1: DMSP biosynthesis, regulation andphysiological functions ; Session 2: Uptake, metabolism
and biodegradation of DMS(P) and related compounds;
Session 3: Dynamics ofDMS(P) and related compounds
in marine ecosystems; Session 4: DMS(P), global climate
and biogeochemistry; Session 5: DMS(P) in the marine
environment: The case of Phaeocystis; Poster session.
Symposium 11 (28-29th August, 1999) The Role of
Phaeocystis in Marine Biogeochemical Cycles and Fluxes.
Session 1: DMS(P) in the marine environment: The case of
Phaeocystis; Session 2: Phaeocystis and the marine Ccycle; Session 3: Phaeocystis, competitiveness and its
interactions with other trophic levels; Poster session.
Winfried rV C. Gieskes
University o.fGroningen, Dept. o.fll1arine Biology
PO Box 14, 9750AA Haren , The Netherlands
Tel.: 31-50-3632259; e-mail:W W C. Gieskes@biol.rug.nl
8th INA Conference (INA8)
Brcmen, 11th-15th SeJltember, 2000
As already announced in the last issue of the JNR, theINA8 conference will be held in Bremen on the 11th-15th
September, 2000. The organising committee of the Historic
Geology/Palaeontology Group, within the Department ofGeosciences of Bremen University, is busily taking the .
necessary actions to prepare for the conference. The year
2000 in the north of Germany will be dominated by theWorld Exposition - EXPO 2000 - (June to October) in
Hannover, which is only lOOkm from Bremen. The hotel
situation will thus be very tense, and we need to organise
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Accommodation: Hotel accommodation will most
likely be in one hotel for all, which is situated downtown. A
youth hostel is within walking distance of this hotel. The
price for a hotel room will probably be - US$70 per night(i.e. sharing a double room halves the cost). Breakfast in
the hotel will be -US$10 each. A limited number ofcolleagues may be privately accommodated, in case theyneed it and are content with a sleeping-bag.
Agenda : In addition to talks and poster
presentations. the Bremen group will offer a workshop on
calcareous dinoflagellates. A fieldtrip will take us to theNorth Sea coast, a ' type locality' ofsiliciclastic tidal flats.
We warmly welcome any suggestion regarding f11rther
workshops, etc.
Publications: Abstracts will be published in our
institute's series, BerichLe aus dem Fa c hh erei ch
Geowissenschajien der Universildl Bremen. A special
volume of the Courier Forschungsinstitul Senckenherg
has been chosen for the Conference Proceedings.
Re~ristration: (Pre-)Registration forms can be fow1don our website: http:/www.uni-bremen.de/-micro1Jal/
ina8.html. For those who need a hardcopy, we will send
one immediately if you let us know.
Organising team: Universitat Bremen, Fachbereich
5 - Geowissenschaften , Historische GeologiePalaontologie, Klagenfurter Stra.Be, D-28359 Bremen,
Germany. Fax for all: +49-421-2184451. Professor Dr.
Helmut Willems: tel.: +49-421-2182198; e-mail :HYPERLINK mailto:willems<@micropal.uni-bremen.de,
wil/ems@micropal. uni-hremen.de; Ern a Friedel: tel.: +49421-2182236: e-mail: HYPERLINK mailto:erna@uni bremen .de , erna @micropal.uni-hrem en. de; Tania
Hildebrand-Habel : tel.: +49-421-2183826 ; e-mail:
HYPERLINK mai !to: hi-ha@ micropal. uni -bremen. de,
hiha@;nicropal.uni-bremen. de ; Dr. Christine Holl : tel. :+49-421-2184313;
e-mail:HYPERLINK
m a i It o: hoe 1@ micro p a I . u ni-b re men . de ,hoell@micropal.uni-bremen.de.
We look forward to meeting you all at Bremen in2000!
7th International Conference on Paleoceanography(ICP7),
Sapporo, J ap;m, September, 2001
The 7th International Conference on Paleoceanography(ICP7) will be held in Sapporo, Japan in middle to late
September, 2001 . The eo-convenors for ICP7 are Hisatake
Okada (nanno person), Itaru Koizumi (diatom person), andTadamichi Oba (isotope guy). Ric Jordan and several
Japanese nanno-specialists will help run this meeting. The
meeting will be held at a very modern convention facility
in the downtown area that is walking distance from all
major hotels, all major shopping districts, and from
Hokkaido University Campus. We will try to organise an
efficient and not too expensive meeting. Although I don 't
think I have time and energy to organise a nanno-meetingin conjunction with the ICP7, meeting rooms are available
for some nannoplankton-related meeting prior to, or after,
the ICP7. So try to attend this meeting. Up-to-date
information will be announced via coccoli th.list .
Hisatake Okada
oka@cosmos.sci.hokudai.ac.jp

LOGO COMPETITION -ANOTHER REMINDER!!!
I have so far received two logos and the promise of afurther one! So, if you were planning to be inunortalised as
the INA logo-master, may I remind you that there is a new
deadline for contributions: March 1st, 1999, and that the
prize is £100 cash .
The logo should be submitted to the Editor as either
a computer file, generated by one of the commonly-useddrawing or photo packages, or as a clean paper copy if it ishand-produced (I can scan this), or both . It can be either
monochromatic or colour, although colour logos should
be reproducible in monochrome (if you want to produce
both a colour and monochrome image of the same logo,that will be ideal) . It should incorporate the words,International Nannoplankton Association ', reflect adiversity of interests. convey some idea/ hope of a strong
future for the subject, or reflect the fact that we are moving
into a new century. Keep it reasonably simple - less ismore, as they say. Bear in mind that it will be reproduced
for a variety of situations. from headed letter paper toadvertising our organisation at conferences. Before you
start, however, be aware that the copyright will belong to
the INA, and no discussion will be entered into about thiswith the winning entrant.
COMPUTER NEWS
Just to remind you, the INA now has an official website,
located on the Natural History Museum server with a mirror
at the University of California San Diego Geoscience server,
thanks to both Jeremy Young and Wuchang Wei . Why
don ' t you visit it?
NHM server at the address
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/ina/ina.htm
UCSD server at the address
http://gs.ucsd.edu/ina/ina.htm
ODP NEWSNew ODP Nannofossil Reference Centres
As many people will know, there has been somereorganisation oft he ODP Microfossil Reference Centres(MRCs) and, as a result , three additional nannofossil
collections became available and bids were formally invitedfor hosts for them. Not surprisingly, many ce-ntres ofnannofossil research did apply for these but the end result
was that the collections were assigned to the Florida State
University, Tallahassee, Universita di Parma and The
Natural History Museum, London.
What is the ODP MRC 11rogram?
The concept of the MRC program is that representative
sets of microfossil slides should be prepared and madeavailable at centres around the world. They are intended
for reference study, for example to: allow shipboard
scientists to familiarise themselves with material from theregion they will visit before ODP cruises ; to allow
reconnaissance studies before selection of samples forresearch; to provide access to samples for industrial
workers, students etc. without the need for a researchcommitment; to allow verification/updating of publishedtaxonomic assignments; to allow research projects which
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MRC program, representative sets of samples are identified
for each site and multiple preparations are made forforaminifera, radiolaria , diatoms and calcareous
nannofossils. For more information see:
http://v.ww-odp.tamu.t.'tlu/mrc/mrcJlage.HTML

MRCs. A listing of samples is available on the WWW.
2. -600 narinofossil preparations from ODP Legs 132 to
138- not at all nannofossil MRCs, but nearly completed.
Jeremy Young
jy@nhm. ac.uk

Which are the full MRC sites?
The following five sites have collections of bothnannofossils and the other three microfossil groups.
US East Coast- Smithsonian Institute. Contact Dr. Brian
Huber (huber.brian@nmnh.si. edu)
US Gulf Coast - ODP. Contact Dr. John Firth(john_jirth @odp. tamu.edu)
Western Europe- Natural History Museum, Base!. Contact
Dr.
MichaelKnappertsbusch(knappertsbus@ubaclu. unibas. eh)
JaJlan -National Science Museum, Tokyo. Contact Dr.
Yoshihiro Tanimura (tanimura@kahaku.go.jp)
New Zealand- Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences,Ltd., Lower Hutt. Contact Dr. Percy Strong(p.strong@gns. cri.nz)

STILL AVAILABLE
Duplicate copies of some reprints from the Loeblich &Tappan collection are still available, while supplies last. A
list of available reprints is posted on the UCMP website at:
http:llwww.ucmp.berkcley.edu/collcctionslmiueps.html
Subjects covered include foraminifera , calcareous
nannoplankton, acritarchs and tintinnids. For more
information see the website or contact me.
Karen L. Wetmore, }.:fuseum of Paleontology,
1/01 VLSB #4780,
University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, CA 94720-4780
karenw@.ucmp 1. berkeley. edu

Which are the satellite MRCs with nannofossil
collections?
The nannofossil MRCs will only have nannofossil
collections and will play roles in developing thenannofossil collection. This is intended to include:
preparation of further sample sets (both FSU and Parma
have made commitments in this area); enhancement of
database infonnation on the MRC sample-sets (in particularadding information on the nannofossil assemblages in theslides); identifying and preparing additional sample setsof special value for nannofossil research (e.g. topotype
samples and samples with exceptional nannofossil
preservation); promotion of use of the nannofossil MRCs.
The Nebraska and FSU sites both have diatom MRC
collections as well as the nannofossils.
University of Nebraska, USA- contact Dr. David Watkins(dwatkins@unl. edu)
Universita degli Studi di Parma, Italy- contact Dr. Giuli<maVilla (geo!OJ @ipruniv.cce. unipr. it)
Florida State University, Tallahassec, USA- contact Dr.
Sherwood W. Wise or Dr. Thomas Janacek(wise@g~v.ftu. edu)
The Natural History Museum, London- contact Dr. Jeremy
Young (jy@nhm. ac. uk)

NEW BOOK NEWSAs you may be aware, there have been a few problems
associated with getting hold of copies of Calcareous
Nannofossil Biostratigraphy (Ed. P.R. Bown), a review ofwhich appears in this issue. This situation arose because
Chapman & Hall were taken over by Kluwer Academic
around the time the book went to press. If you want a
copy, then the following information may help. The bookis part of the British Micropalaeontology Society Series
and is published by Kluwer Academic Publishers,
Dordrecht who have a website giving more information at:htt)l://www. wkap.nl/book.htm/0-412-78970-1
Ordering can be done via the Web, or through thefollowing:
The Americas: Kluwer Academic Publishers. Order
Dept. , PO Box 358, Accord Station, Hingham, MA 020180358, USA Tel.: (781) 871-6600; fctx: (781) 871-6528; e-mail:k/uwer@wkap. eo m
Rest of the World: Kluwer Academic Publishers,
Book Dep(, PO Box 322 , 3300 AH Dordrecht, The
Netherl<mds. Tel.: (+31) 78 63923 92; fax: (+ 31) 78 654 64 74;
e-mail: services@.wkap. nf
BOOK REVIEW #1
Calcareous Nannofossil Biostratigrallhy
Edited by Paul R. Bown (1998)
Published by Chap man & Hall/Kiuwer Academic
Publishers
British Micropalaeontological Society Publication
Series: 328Jlll·
Printed by Cambridge University Press
Hardbound ISBN 0-412-78970-1
NLG 235.00 I GBP £79.00 I USD $1 27.00
Reviewed by Katharina von Sa/is, Geologica/Jnstitute,
ETH-Z, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland

Who can use the collections?
Anyone. A basic condition of ODP providing MRC
collections is that they should be freely available to thescientific community. Obviously, though, the relevant hostscientists should be contacted before visiting the centres.
Also, note that the collections cannot be loaned, only
studied at the host institutes. For the MRC at the NHM,
financial support for visits by European workers cancurrently be applied for via the EU Large Scale Facility(LSF) scheme (see http://www.nhm.ac.uk/scienccl
science_marketing/bioresource!).

The successor to A.R. Lord's (Ed., 1982).A StratigraphicalIndex of Calcareous Nannofossils has appeared in 1998
under the new title , Calcareous Na nnofossil
Biostratigraphy, as part of the publication series of the
British Micropalaeontological Society, from Chapman &What material is in the nannofossil MRCs?
The following sets of slides:
1. 3000 slidesfromDSDPLegs 1-36, Sites 1-329. Thisscunple
set has been entirely prepared, and is held in all nannofossil

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by which time nannoplankton were producing biogenic
carbonate in rock-fanning proportions". According to Noelet al. ( 1994, and papers cited tl1erein), already the limestonesof the Lias consisted mainly of calcareous nannofossils,
namely Schizosphaerel/a, and small coccoliths were rockbuilding during the Middle Jurassic.
The range of nearly 80 species is given in a figure
and correlated with the stages and the boreal ammonite
zones.
A short paper on . Calcareous nannofossils fromthe Upper Kinuneridgian-Volgian of Gorodische, Russia 'by Bown is included as an appendix in this chapter. Itfeatures distribution charts and a discussion on thestratigraphic problems of the uppermost Jurassic, as wellas the discussion about Stephanolithion species and thedescription of a new species, Staurolithites lumina .
The atlas of species features SEM and LM
photomicrographs, most ofthem of excellent quality, andthe ranges of the species where illustrated by SEM.
The LOWER CRETACEOUS chapter wascomposed by Bown, Rut ledge, Crux & Gallagher. Also thischapter concentrates on the zonal subdivision, using a BC
system (after Rutledge & Bown, in prep.: for comments,
see below). The correlation of calcareous nannofossil
events with both stages. CC and NK/NC coccolith zones,
boreal and tethyan ammonite zones andmagnetostratigraphy are given in two very useful figures
including also Indian Ocean nannofossil events. For the
Barremian-Aptian interval, a high-resolution subdivisionof the BC zones is given for the northern North Sea. The
stratigraphic ranges of nearly 70 selected species, bothgeneral, endemic boreal and predominantly tethyan fonns, are correlated to stages and boreal ammonite zones in a
figure. The atlas of species consists of high quality SEM
and LM pictures - a joy to study - and gives the ranges ofthe species where illustrated by SEM.
Bumett wrote the UPPER CRETACEOUS chapter
with contributions from Gallagher & Hampton. Since she
is very much involved in the work for new definitions of
the Cretaceous stage boundaries, the historical part of thechapter is longer than in the previous chapters. The
Cretaceous nannofossil succession is described and thechanges in dominance of genera/families through tile Late
Cretaceous and across the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary
is illustrated. Five nannofloral palaeobiogeographic
provinces are distinguished : boreal , intermediate N,
tethyan, intermediateS and austral. For the description of
the zonal system, the author discontinues the use of"taxonomic epithets" for the , formally-describedalphanumeric biozones ", and uses a new system of UC(Upper Cretaceous) zones extending from UCO starting in
the Upper Albian and ending with UC20 at the top of theMaastrichtian. Some subzones and marker events are
additionally given a combination of two letters for theprovince in which they are valid. The thus assembled
figures will be very useful in stratigraphic work worldwide.
Equally useful are the remarks about diachronous
occurrences in the different provinces of many of themarkers generally used. In ten often very fully packed pages
with figures, the marker events are shown for the different

Hall (recently taken over by Kluwer Academic Publishers),
with Paul R. Bown as the new editor. Where the old bookwas blue, the new is black, the new being only slightly
larger but considerably thicker. What was included on 192
pages in 1982, now takes up 316 pages.
The book is clearly structured and starts, after
CONTENTS, PREFACE, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS anda TECHNICALNOTEANDABBREVIATIONS, \vithan
INTRODUCTION by Bown & Young. We here learn about
what calcareous nannofossils are and read about
haptophyte algae cytology, scales as diagnostic features ,coccolith morphology and formation, life cycles, coccolith
function , as well as coccolithophore ecology anddistribution . The outline of calcareous nannofossil
taxonomy and classification is illustrated on an ordinal
leveL and a phylogcnetic model (families) based on the
two authors ' recent publications on the theme is given.
Not surprisingly, the authors here come to the conclusion(p.l5), that " the integration of the order-level classification
between living and fossil material is a problem which needs
to be addressed". This first chapter is rounded off with ashort outline of the geological history of calcareous
nannofossils and half a page on their use iiJ biostra tigraphy
with the conclusion than "the large volume of subsequent
work [to Lord. 1982; Haq, 1983 ; Perch-Nielsen. 1985a. b:
Siesser, 1993] means that the comprehensive reviews andnew data presented here should be of great value, for bothnannofossil specialists and end users of nannofossil data" .
How right they are.
The second chapter is entitled TECHNIQUES andalso was written by Bown & Young. Here they give soundand very useful advice for sample collection, preparation
techniques, means of observation. data collection andpresentation.
Both chapters are very helpful for all who want to
update their outdated knowledge about coccolithophorids
and their significance, treatment and applications.
Bown wrote the short chapter about the TRIASSIC.
giving a comprehensive overview, including a threefold
subdivision , and the necessary illustrations both as
dra\vings. LM and SEM photomicrographs. This chapter,and most of the following ones, are built up along thesame pattern with an introduction, important references,
nannofossil succession, biostratigraphy, biogeography
and an atlas of species with the plates. Some chaptershave additional sections on global correlation .
magnetobiochronology, or notes on taxonomic problems
and conclusions.
The JURASSIC chapter was written by Bown &Cooper and features mainly the description of the boreal
zones and subzones following mainly Bown ( 1987) and
Bown et al. ( 1988; NJl-NJl8) and t110sefrom Italy/S France
and Portugal. These descriptions are accompanied by zonal
schemes that show the correlation between the areas, andwith the boreal ammonite zones and the Jurassic stages.
For the tethyan Upper Jurassic, the zones NJ 19(T), NJ20(T)and NJK are discussed and correlated to themagnetostratigraphy in the Tithonian and Jurassic/
Cretaceous boundary interval. Here I have to make a noteas to the statement on p.35: " .. .latest Jurassic (Tithonian)65

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provinces and correlated to stages, ammonite/macrofaunalzones as well as the traditional CC and NC zones, among
others. The correlation to the planktonic foraminiferal
marker events is given together with themagnetostratigraphy by including the integrated zonationofBralower et al. (1995). The summary figure ofthe Upper
Cretaceous nannofossil biozonation acts as an anchor for
us oldies to the ,good old times' when we hoped that one
set of coccolith zones- unlike planktonic foraminifera zones- would be applicable worldwide.
The K!f boundary is discussed at the end of theCretaceous chapter which, thus, also includes illustrationsof Tertiary species in its atlas of species, not counted in
the count below.
The claim by the author, that "Most of the Upper
Cretaceous calcareous nannofossils are listed andillustrated in Plates 6.1 to 6.15" is no exaggerdtion. I counted
some 400 species names, of which 65 were indicated not tobe figured. Most of the mainly LM photographs are ofvery good quality, the fossils of1en shown at different
angles to the polarisers. The ranges of the figured species
are given in terms of stages.
After all of the data and illustrations presented inthis chapter, one wonders and rejoices about the author's
statement on p.l34: " .. .further biostratigraphic refinement
is still possible". I am sure we will, eventually, ,beat theammonites', and not only in the Upper Cretaceous.
Varol assembled the chapter on the PALAEOGENE,
concentrating on the economically important North Sea
area, and sharing with the readers the impressive resultsof his findings from this region. The correlation schemes
between the various existing zonations and the old stage
stratotypes do not contain the zonal definitions. On theother hand, the three figures with the nannofossil zones
and events for the North Sea area show a sequence of
events and the 36 partly new NNTp/e/o-zones based onthem, correlated with the timcscale, the NPs and the stages.
This overview lacks, for the obvious reason that this partof the section is not developed in a suitable facies in the
North Sea area, the calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy
for most of the Upper Paleocene and the presently muchdebated Paleocene/Eocene boundary interval. It will ,however, be very helpful for all those having the privilegeof working in the North Sea area.
The specimens illustrated in the atlas of species by
excellent LM photographs all stem from North Sea wellsections, but no ranges are given.
Young wrote the NEOGENE chapter with theobjective to "provide an up-to-date guide to Neogene
nannofossil taxonomy and biostratigraphy in a succinct [I
had to look up this word in the dictionary... ] and usefulformat" . For the discussion he "subdivided [the Neogene]
into eight intervals (A-H) of l-5Ma duration, based on themost important events". These intervals, which should berecognisable also in poorly fossiliferous materials, are thencorrelated to the classical NN and CN zonations and themagnetostratigraphy, age and stages (but not theplanktonic foraminifera zonation(s)) in a very usefulsummary figure which will entice a few older colleagues toinvest in new and stronger glasses.

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Instead of a simple range-chart, Young presents us
with figures including both ranges and simple line-drawingsof the species of the Helicosphaeraceae, Syracosphaeraceae, Pontosphaeraceae, Calcidiscaceae,
Coccolithaceae, Noelaerhabdaceae, Discoasteraceae,
Sphenolithaceae, Triquetrorhabdulaceae, and some otherforms. All ranges are correlated to the zonal schemes andhis A-H intervals. The need for new glasses becomes evenmore urgent here.
In the notes on taxonomic problems, we learn that
Wallich 's original slides ( 1877 !) have been relocated at the
Natural History Museum in London and that we now use
Helicosphaera carteri (instead of the younger H.
kamptneri), that the genus ,Pyrocyclus' represents
specimens of abraded Reticu/ofenestra species, andseveral additional interesting and important observations.
The atlas of species includes not only a wealth ofLM photographs- including m<my showing different levelsof focus of the same specimen -but also very welcome
notes for the identification/differentiation of the shown
genera and species and their ranges in terms ofNN-zones.
An appendix gives the origin of the specimens illustrated
in a novel and space-saving manner. The quality of theillustrations is partly very good but many pictures seem tolack contrast and appear rather grey. Most of us willdefinitely need the new glasses (see above) to read thenames under the photographs.
Hine & Weaver illustrate the QUATERNARY
biostratigraphy with reports on DSDP Site 610 in the
Rockall Trough and three piston-cores froilJ the flank ofKings Trough, from where a sequence of seven acmeintervals (QAZ7 to 1- here the numbering starts at the top)
is described. They stress the possibility of high-resolution
stratigraphy through a combination of isotope- andmagnetostratigraphy and semi-quantitative analysis ofnannofossil assemblages, leading to the recognition ofacme intervals. In two figures, the ranges of selected
species are given and correlated to the Gartner. NN and
CN zonal schemes, time and magnetostratigraphy. The
authors conclude that high-resolution stratigraphy can beaccomplished up to --65°N, while it is hampered by barren
intervals reflecting ice-cover or suppressed productivity
during deglaciation at higher latitudes.
Selected species (20) are well illustrated both by
LM and SEM on the two plates, their ranges being given
in a figure in the text and with the SEM pictures. I havesome doubts, however, about the correctness of somemagnifications, though. P lacunosa larger than C.
leptoporus and nearly as large as C. pelagicus (Pl.9.1)
make me wonder just as much as an E. huxleyi of the same
size as G. caribbeanica (Pl.9 .2).
Hine & Weaver report that " apart from theNoelaerhabdaceae, more than 30 accessory taxa are
regularly recorded in standard smear slides". We can only
regret the fact that so few of the over 200 described living
species fossilise at all!
TI1e REFERENCES are many and I have not checked
if they are all referred to in the text. I did, however, noticethat at least one reference in the text of a chapter did notoccur here (de Kaenel, in press: p.35). Also, I missed aJournal of Nannoplankton Research, 20, 2, 1998.

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reference or two to the work by van Niel ( 1992a, b, 1994 ), Europe is, however, still present but this differs from one
who studied the nannoconids in the North Sea area and • chapter to the other.
Range-charts of the most important species, but
contributed much to our understanding of this genus andalso of any other species, are a very practical feature its wider than previously/usually advertised distribution
some chapters contain one, others not. After having read,in the North Sea area .
on p.27: "given a good distribution chart there is no need
The TAXONOMIC INDEX is a very useful feature.
for detailed text description of assemblages, instead thisThe genera are listed in alphabetical order and with thepart of a report c~m concentrate on outlining general results,
species they contain, indicating also the author(s) of both.
problems
and areas of uncertainty", I had expected many
Family names are arranged in between, and references arecomprehensive
range-charts witJ1 indications for the ranges
made to the chapters, pages and plates where the units areofthemarkerspeciesinstead of the 'classical' definition
treated/illustrated. Personally, I would have liked also toanddescriptionofzones.
I would have wished for all
have an index where all species are arranged in alphabeticalchapters
toincluderange-charts
but realise that, given theorder- the brain of a long-time nannofossil specialist does
di!Terent ranges in different regions and environments, tJ1e
not always remember the actual genus assignment of abook probably would not have appeared still in !Jus century.
species that has changed its genus-assignment several
The possibility to compose figures by computer
times over the past 30 years. Also, the taxonomic index isare wonderful and have been used to good avail in the
not completely reliable. Ca/cica/athina alta, for example,
present book. The relatively small format of the printed
is indexed as shown on Plate 6.3, while it is printed on 6.4.
pages led, however, to strong reductions , especially toAlso, the one-page SUBJECT INDEX is a nicefigures with a lot of information, which rendered the lettersservice to the reader looking for certain themes and givesso small that they cannot be read without a magnifying
a quick overview of all the themes treated in this splendid glass or after mechanical magnification by a copy-maclline.
volume other than what it promises, the calcareous
I have no solution for this problem, since I want all thenannofossil biostratigraphy. We here find reference to, for
information given and also appreciate to have it in one
example, image-capture, the use of the gypsum plate, or to
figure.
organic scales in Haptophyte algae and the Ypresian Stage.
There are some things that could have been
But why not to the Aptian, Barremian or all other stages?
st<mdardised in all chapters. Imagine tl1at all tJ1e signs used
Actually, also an index of abbreviations would have beenin figures to mark a FO or LO were the same? Dream that
appreciated - it sometimes takes much imagination andthe authors had met and decided to invent a new ' standard'zonal system with a logical combination of letters andtime to find the various abbreviations somewhere in thenumbers, small or large letters for the subdivisions? Many
text of the chapter where they are used. (Editors note will wish that more authors would have added taxonomic
most abbreviations appear at the front of the book).
remarks to their illustrations, so that one would not need
The book features three empty, white pages andanother source in order to learn about the differences
two grey ones at the end. What a nice service for the
between the different species of a genus. Others will longreaders to have space to add their own observations rightthere and to communicate them to the authors or the editor for consistent mention of the known range of eachillustrated species. Colleagues working for the oil industry
in order to be included into the next edition of the ' black
book'. Since there is no indication as to the magnitude of will miss an 'upside-down ' zonal system based on LOs, as
it had been proposed by previous authors for thethis first edition, it is only my guess that there will be
Cretaceous over a decade ago. Others again will not always
further editions and that some of such remarks will be
understandthe numbering system applied on some plates
included in them.
- once they have found out which plate they are actuallylooking at. Obviously, some technical editing process
Further remarks:
missed the lack of numbers on each plate.
Mostly it was a pleasure to review this book, but there
In publications such as this, where most authors
were some frustrations, too. The most important is theinclude personal , not yet published results into theirfact, that only in one chapter did an author write the names
chapter(s), or use not yet published information fromof the fossils right under the illustration. This practicalcolleagues, it is always a problem to know whetJ1er a plannedfeature, which was pioneered in the calcareous nannofossil
paper (in prep.) will be published in time or not. Strategies
and some other chapters in Bolli et al. (1985), has sincefor how to deal with tllis vary, but it certainly is a no-no in
only been taken up by very few brave colleagues who
any reviewed journal. Too many authors here used an ' in
could convince their editor(s), that, yes, it was possible toprep.' reference (Bergen in tJ1e Jurassic; Rut ledge & Bown
print such plates.
in the Lower Cretaceous ; Burnett et al. in the Upper
For many of us, the title of the book suggests its
Cretaceous; Varol & Young in the Cenozoic chapter- sorry
content to cover the whole biostratigraphy of calcareous
if I nlissed any... ). Since tJ1ere is no guarantee that ' in prep.'
nannofossils, from the Triassic to the Recent and for thepapers will ever materialise, I assume we should consider
whole world. Those of us who remember the title andBown et al. (Chapter 5) as authors for the many new BC
content of its predecessor by Lord ( 1982) are cautious andzones and subzones, and not the ' pre-cited' Rutledge &positively surprised that the new book does, in fact, include
Bown.
more about the worldwide calcareous nannofossil
Small irritations occurred when reading
biostratigraphy than the old one. Some bias on northern Reticu/ofenestra umbilica i_n stead of R. umbilicus (the67Journal of Nannoplankton Research, 20, 2, 1998.

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Latin word means navel and does not follow the gender ofthe genus; many of us have made.tbis mistake for decades).
Or when the FO of Scapho/ithus fossilis is given as
Hauterivian on p.l04 but with an illustrated specimen
shown from the Valanginian on p.ll8. Or when the ranges
are only indicated for those species which are illustrated
with the SEM, but not next to their LM equivalents. Since
most people are doing stratigraphy work with the LM, tllis
may be an educational trick that forces stratigraphers also
to look at the splendid SEM-pictures of the species theyuse? Or when several authors followed after the templatethat read 'author'. And when, on p.47, Hallam(l975) should
be more recent thanHallcun (1975). I take the latter as British
humour, which non-British people have little chance ofunderstanding. William Smith may have been the father ofHistorical Geology (p.34- who was William Snlitl1, and when
did he live? Not all of us know our history of geology). But
some of us learned that Nikolaus Steno from Denmark was
the father of the law of superposition in the 17th century.
After these minor negative points, I would like tocontinue with some of the many very positive items. The
electronically-produced plates in tl1e Neogene chapter are
a revelation and will, I assume, serve as models in many
future publications- hopefully with somewhat larger lettersused for the fossil names. The use of the same magnification
for LM illustrations at 2300x must be considered a major
break-through for the UCL-school of calcareous
nannofossil specialists. They have resisted for many years
to give up unequal magnifications for LM photographs asused in Lord ( 1982) and other papers by the UCL school.
The high quality of most illustrations is partly due to thewell-preserved material the authors had at hand- I would
like to join my thanks to those the autl10rs already bestowed
on the providers of such material. It seems not fair that thepositive points fill much less space than the negative ones.
Yet it is a sign that there is still work out there to do and bepresented as papers, books and. I predict. on the WWW.
The list ofWWW-addresses given on p.28 will be longer
next time and hopefully also include the IN A-site at http://gs.ucsd.edu/ina/ and the possibility of publishing in
Paleontologia Electronica (http://www-odp.tamu.edu/
llalco/).

Some statistics. ..
In the PREFACE, there is a statement that I wanted tocheck:" ... including over 2000 individual photographs, andas such we believe this to be the most comprehensive
atlas of calcareous nannofossils ever produced". In fact,
the different chapters dealing with actual calcareous
nannofossils are all well illustrated. Some more tlum others,some including only LM or only SEM illustrations, mostincluding a fair number ofboth. I have counted them (sorry
ifi made a small mistake here or there) in order to know
how many there are. Then I divided this number with themillion years of the geological interval they represent inorder to choose the king or queen of illustrations/m.y. Outof curiosity, I did the same for Lord (1982) and for thenanno-chapters in Bolli et al. ( 1985). Here are the results:
In conclusion, Jeremy Young, the author of the
Neogene chapter, has presented the most views of

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CHAPTER
Introduction
Triassic
Jurassic
Lr. Cretaceous
Up. Cretaceous
Palaeogene
NeogeneQuaternary
Cenozoic

TOTAL

m.y.•
20..
68
39
31
41
22
2
65
230

LM SEM<....

BOWN (1998)

,.:.

,.:.

,.:.

....~UJ....~UJ

~

..J
..J

..J
..J

....0

"' TOTAL "'
1.0
4.6
7.4

30
60
90

60
120
140

90t
180
230

60
240

60
380

120 1.8
~ 2.7

~

LM

28

1.4

1039

7.5

1456

22.4
11.0 2005

illa.

12
234
265
646
159
660
29

SEM TOTAL
12
11
159
120
38

9
349

12
23
393
385
664
159
660
38
857

ill!

"'
..J
..J

1.1
5.8
9.9
22.1
3.9
30.0
19.0
13.2
10.2

Table 1: Number of illustrations in Lord (1982), Bolli et al. (1985)
and this book. *Duration according to International Stratigraphic
Chart, JUGS, prdiminary edition, 1998. **For the Triassic, anestimate of 20m.y. was assumed for the time of existence of
calcareous nannofossils. t = including a lso illustrations of Triassic
forms.

calcareous nannofossils per m. y. He used only LM picturesand ,the plates were produced using NIH-Image, an image
analysis program written by Wayne Rasband of the
National Institute of Health" . Tllis progrdm allowed Youngto get around the physical cutting and pasting and also
motivated him to follow Perch-Nielsen ( 1985) by putting
the name of the fossil directly belO\v its illustration .
Congratulations and THANK YOU!
As for "the most comprehensive atlas of calcareous
nannofossils ever produced", tllis statement does not hold,since Perch-Nielsen (in Bolli et al., 1985) produced~ 180
photographs more than are included in the ' black book '(Table l ). There are other differences, too. While Bolli etal. ( 1985) mixed LM, TEM and SEM in the same ' plate/figure', and spread them throughout the text between therelevant words, all plates are arranged at the end of thevarious chapters in Bown ( 1998), a trait taken over fromLord ( 1982).
A look at the text shows major differences in theway the various, time-intervals were treated. An overview
is given in Table 2.
The printed pages arc of different surface area,
especially between Lord and Bown on one side and Bolli
et al. on the other: 286.16cm 2 and 29l.56cm 2 , against
365 50cm2 in the latter. We thus have to correct the Bollipages with a factor of 1.26 to get an equivalent page/m.y.
value.
It is surprising how similar the values are whencomparing the number ofpages/m.y. for the different timeintervals for the Mesozoic. It increased from 0. 7p/m.y. in
1982, to0.8p/m.y. in 1985, to l.lp/m.y. in 1998. The increase
happened both for the various parts of the Mesozoic andfor the Mcsozoic as a whole, and represents the increasein knowledge that has occurred over the years. This ismost pronounced for the Triassic/Jurassic, where progress
was most conspicuous. For the Cenozoic the changes weredramatic, leading from 0.5p/m.y. to 2.5p/m.y. in 1985 andback to 1.3 p/m.y. in 1998. This is 'understandable when
one considers that the title of the 1982 chapter read:"Cenozoic calcareous nannofossils - a reconnaissance".
This was due to the fact that pre-Quaternary Cenozoic
sediments are less well-represented in Great Britain and by

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News and Gossip, p. 60 - 73.

L ORD (1 982)

BOLLI eta/. •(1 985)the ge nu s Nann oconus (calcareous na nn ofossil, incerlae
sedis)• Call. de Micropal., 913 : 29-48 .

BOWN (1998)

Noel, D. , B usso n, G., Cornee, A. & Mangin, A.-M. 1994 . Le
nannoplancton ca lc ai re et la formation des alte rn a ncescalcai res-ma rn es dan s le Lias des bassins de Marches-Ombrie(Italic). Ril~ It. Paleonl. Strat., 99/4 : 515-550.

ID"!

CHAPTERINTRO.ITECH.

m .v. PAGES

P/m.y.

PAGES

X

"-

P/m.y.

PAGES

0.8

28
5
52
57
46
68
171

10

Triassic

20#
Jurassic
68
TRIASSIC+JURASSIC 88
Lr. Cretaceous
39
Up. Cretaceous
31
MESOZOIC#
158
Palaeogene
41
Neogene22
Quaternary
2
CENOZOIC65
REFERENCESINDEXES
TOTAL
223

13
41

55
109

0.15
1.05
1.77
0.70

98

123t

25
41

18
31
8
9
167

0.50

127

16ot

17
242

21t

2.5

305.0

84
19
13
315

P/m.y.

0.25
0.76
0.65
1.18
2.19
1.10
0.61

BOOK REVIEW #2
Calcareous Nannofossil Biostratigraphy - a bookreview with a gender Jlerspcctive and a retrospection on
who was runningiNA
Reviewed bv Katharina von Sa/is, Geological Institute,
EJ'H-Z. CH-8 092 l iirich, Switzerland

1.86
9.00
1.30

Table 2: Co mpari son of numb er o f pa ges and pa ges per milli on
years represented in the three work s di scussed. *Onl y the pages _of
the ca lcareous nannofossi l cha pt ers. #Only that part of the Tn ass1c/
Mesozoic co nt ain ing cal car<!o us nannofoss ils. t umber of pages
when the size of the pages is taken into cons iderati on.

the fact that very few British nannopalaeontologists at thetime were involved in consulting for oil exploration firms
or engaged in the Deep Sea Drilling Project. The many
pages on the Cenozoic in 1985 were due to the personal
experience and preference of its author.
The total number of pages has nearly doubled from1982 to 1998, but is only a little higher than in the Bolli etal. (1985) volwne.
In conclusion:
Bown 's ( 1998) ' black book ' is an absolute ' must' for all
who perform biostratigraphy with calcareous nannofossils.
It replaces completely its predecessor (Lord, 1982) and toa very large extent the nanno-chapters in Bolli et al. ( 1985).
The editor and authors are to be congratulated to haveundertaken the task of giving us again an overview of the'stateoftheart' .

THANK. YOU.
Referenc es
Bolli , H .M. , Sa unders, J.B . & Perch-Nielsen , K. (Eds). 1985.
Plankton Stratigraphy . Cambridge University Press.
Calcareous nannofossils o n pages 329-554 . 1006- 1022 .
Bown, P.R. 1987 . Taxonomy, biostratig raphy, and evoluti on oflate Triassic-Early Jura ssic calcareous nannofossils. Spec.
Papers in Palaeont., 38: 1-11 8.
Bown, P.R. (Ed.). 1998. Calcareous Nmmofossil Biostratigraphy.
Chapman & Hall : 1-3 15 .
Bown, P.R. , Cooper, M.K. E. & Lord , A. R. 1988. A calcareousna nn ofoss il bio zonation sc he m e for th e ear ly to mid
Mesozoic. Ne wsletters on Stratigraphy, 20: 9 1-1 14.
B ralower, T.J ., Leck ie, R .M. , Sliter, W.V. & T hi erstein , H .R.
1995. Geochronology, time scales and global stratigraphic
correlation . SEPM Spec. Pub/., 54 : 65-79.
Lord , A.R. (Ed.). 1982. A Stratigraphical Index of Calcareous
Nannofossils. Ellis Horwood Ltd .: 1-192 .
N iel, B.E. van 1992a. New observations on the morphology of

Nm moconus. Knihovnicka Zemni plyn Nafta, Afisc. 14all:
73-85.
Niel, B .E. van 1992b. Early Cretaceous Namwco1ms (ca lca reous
nannofossil , incertae sedis) in NW Europe. U niversi ty College
London . Unpublished thesi s: 378pp.
N iel, B .E. van 1994. A review ofthe terminology used to describe

69

For the past seven yea rs I have, besides my work as ageologisllnannopalaeontologist, been involved in workfor equal opportunities for men and women at the Swiss
Federal Institute ofTechnology in Zurich (ETH-Z) . Here,of the - 12 000 students, some 25% are female while - 10%of the lecturers and 5% of the professors are female. The
fact that the nwnber of women has increased in many fields
of natural sciences over the past decades also in
Switzerland, is a positive development from the times, inthe early ,si:-..ties, when I was the only female student in the
Geology Departmen t of the Univers ity of Be rne .
Unfortunately, however, over the past 35 years, womenoften have not been able to get permanent positions intheir profession and they only rarely became professors.
Also, for some time now, I have tried to find thegender aspect, the women 's view, in earth sciences andhave not found much . I have, however, lived in thisenvironment with open eyes through the past nearly 40
years and ha ve experienced discrimination andencouragement as a woman tl1at men did not e:-..'Perience inthe same way. On the occasion of the ,International
Conference on the History of Geology' being held in
Switzerland in September, 1998, I boldly prepared an
abstract and presented, together with a female colleague
who had studied in the early 1960s in Zurich, a poster withthe title , Women in Earth Sciences in Zurich/Switzerland:
why women did not contribute much to earth sciences
uniil recently' (von Sal is & Franks-Dollfus, 1998). I decided
to give thi~ aspect some consideration as soon as I had
read the acknowledgements in Paul Bown's (Ed., 1998),Calcareous Nannofossil Biostratigraphy', the ,black
book', when reviewing it. I eventually decided to do this in
two contributions- a nonnal review (von Salis, tll.is volume)and in the present essay. Since this would have been very
short had I restricted my comments to the ,black book', I
decided to add some remarks about women and men in
INA and present some preliminary conclusions.
A look at the acknowledgements:
Ma ybe I have found myse lf a new sport:,acknowledgement-scrutinising with a gender
perspective' . The idea is to find out who thanks whom,
and why, and if the work of women thereby is hidden inacknowledgements instead of paying credit by including
them as co-authors. There are very famous precedents forsuch cases. Albert Einstein's wife, herself a mathematician,contributed much of the mathematics to his papers -later,

News and Gossip, p. 60 - 73.

Journal of Nannoplankton Research, 20, 2, 1998.

only he got the Nobel Prize. Alfred Wegener maybe was
not alone to figure out continental drift- rumour has it that
it was his wife who wrote the book. One edition, in any
case, does not include any first name for the author, butjust Wegener (pers. comm., 1998, from a German PhD
student). I am not an historian and will usually leave
historical cases to those women and men that recently
have started to engage themselves in finding out the hidden
contributions of women to science. But since I have lived
through much of the development of calcareous
nannofossil research, it seemed timely to have a first lookat ourselves from such a perspective, before it needs
historians to do so.
I found the following ,kicking words' in theacknowledgementsofBown (Ed., 1998): ,Finally, I'd like todedicate the book to Jackie, who 'lived through this' andcontributed far more than just her chapter, and to" ... Jackie
who? Jackie Burnett, obviously, since she is the only woman
who contributed a whole chapter to the book. Why is she,as the only person of the many others listed, only mentioned
by first name in a scientific publication? Why did she
contribute so much that the book gets dedicated to her,but is not a co-editor? We have to assume that she shares
Paul Bown 's life, and therefore works ,for free'. This, ofcourse, has a long tradition. Why was her cooperation
taken for granted and highly appreciated, but notconsidered a contribution worth a co-editorship? We do
not know; maybe Jackie did not want to be a co-editor,
maybe the publisher insisted that there be only one editor?
Such explanations do not appear in acknowledgements.
Well, presumably, the family life of the couple was heavily
affected by the various tasks that had to be performed
over the years in preparation of the ,black book'. And
certainly the dedication was well-earned. It was, too, in an
old tradition of how the work offemale earth scientists get
acknowledged and hidden, as shown below:,Again with this work, my dear wife has cooperated; her help went far beyond the technical". Thesewords were written by Prof. Dr. H. Brockmann-Jerosch from
Ziirich in the foreword to his book on the Swiss farmhouse( 1933). This dear wife, whose name he did not even mention,
was Marie Jerosch, the first women to get a diploma ingeology in Switzerland in 1901. She graduated with
distinction and she got her PhD in the same field in 1904.
Whatever her contribution to science later, it is hidden in
the work of her husband, who was a geographer. Maybe
the relatively long chapter on building materials in theabove book was mainly her contribution, maybe not. In
1998, at least the first name is mentioned and Jackie has
her o·wn chapter, so progress there is. I wish it was greater,
though.
What else than the ,kicking words' can one find in
the acknowledgements of Bown (Ed., 1998)? He thanks
Alan Lord, the editor of the predecessor book, ,for giving
most of the authors included here our start in life" andDon Jacobsen for his teaching ,all those years ago inLiverpool". Then the photographic support by two men is
acknowledged, and material and the financial support
provided by nameless individuals and four institutions,
respectively. A look at the acknowledgements inpredecessors to BO\vn (Ed., 1998), Lord (Ed., 1982) and thecalcareous nannofossil chapters in Bolli et al. (Eds, 1985)
shows the following. In 1982, some of theacknowledgements went to the financial aid fromcompanies that had sponsored both the PhD students andfurther research. The other persons mentioned are thosehaving contributed material , advice and help- they are 12
males. For teclmical and clerical assistance, the two women ·and three men that were acknowledged ,redrew all
diagrams and tables". A women (Denise Noel, who never
became a professor, as far as I know) read the firstmanuscript, and a man (Prof. Tom Barnard) was thanked
for having started it all.
Perch-Nielsen (in Bolli et al., 1985) thanked nine
men and two women for having discussed variou~ aspectsof her chapters and/or read early versions of them. One of
the women, Milena Pika-Biolzi, had helped her with thearrangement of many plates and, a fact not mentioned,
with the alphabetic list of taxa and the index chapter, since
she had access to, and could handle, a computer, which
the author did not at the time. No thanks for clerical andtechnical assistance, since there was no clerical assistanceand the author had been denied technical assistance tosuch a great extent by her boss and co-editor, that she did
not feel in the mood to acknowledge what she actually had
gotten. Perch-Nielsen also thanked her family ,for thepatience and support they showed while I struggled tocomplete the task''. No nan1es, no details- just the way it isusually written. What she meant was that her husband,
Jorgen, had taken over much of the management (not therunning of the household, though) ofthe family which, at
the time, included three small children and a nanny, and amove from The Netherlands to Austria in 1983, while she
kept working at her 50%-job in Zurich and , commuted',
usually for weeks at a time, held a 20% job at the Free
University in Amsterdam from 1980-83, and consulted
mainly for Robertson Research in Singapore to pay for it all.
From personal experience, I realise that we hidemuch when we wn'te acknowledgements (see above). I must
assume that also in other acknowledgements, much ishidden that would be of interest to those trying to analyse
how a major work has been accomplished, and what thecontributions of men and women were in this process.
From the above, it would seem that the two male editors
thanked their ,scientific fathers', while I did not. Not as aco-editor in Bolli et al. and not as the author of the two
nanno-chapters. Looking back, I should have thanked not
any ,scientific father' but a ,scientific mother', Prof. Tove
Birkelund of the Institute for Historical Geology andPalaeontology at the University of Copenhagen. She was
my first boss in 1965, when I got my first job as a postdoe., a term not used at the time. It was she who insisted
that I find a theme in palaeontology for my research, despite
the fact that I had arrived with a PhD in sedimentology.
She then supported my learning years with coccoliths,
both in Copenhagen and Paris, had the patience tothoroughly review my first papers- written in German, since
I had not mastered the English language at the time - andbestowed responsibilities on me that no man in Switzerland
would ever have thought to give to a women at the time.

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News and Gossip, p. 60 - 73.

publishing on calcareous nannofossils (Editor s note Rosanna .Tay lor and Gillian Hamilton almost immediately
entered the realms of, homemaking'; A1inoo (Hojjatzadeh)
Lord worked as an exploration geologist for a fe w years,
was made redundant, retrained, and is now a databasemanager in the industry) . In conclusion, it apparently did
not further their career in science to publish in a text-book.
The two men continued their academic/ industrial careers.
From the three female authors of the ,black book ',Jackie Burnett furnished not only the longest chapter but
also the one with most illustrations (Editor :S· note -Paulactually made my plates!). She has been on ,soft money 'until recently (now consulting part-time), and features on
the WWW as a post-doctoral research assistant at UCL.
Nicky Hine, who co-authored the short chapter on the
Quaternary, according to the information available on the
WWW, is now a nannofossil research worker in the
Palynology Unit at Sheffield (Editors note- jimded until
recently, now also consulting part-time ). Dorothea
Janofske, who contributed to the short Triassic chapter of
P.R. Bown is an assistant professor at the University ofBremen . As for the men, they either have permanent
positions (at UCL (Bown) , The Natural History Museum(Young) , and the Southa mpton Oceanography Centre(Weaver)), or have their own consulting/service companies(Cooper, Galla gher, Varol) or work for one of these(Hampton, Rutledge).
As a preliminary conclusion, one could formulatethat many women in the field of calcareous nannofossils
in genera l did not succeed in findin g perm a nent
employment in their field, while many men did. It would beinteresting to see a complete statistical breakdown of the
UCL-output of calcareous nannofossil PhDs and their nextten years. In the case that it confirms the presented
preliminary conclusion, action seems to be needed bothby universities and by the women themselves. Universities
either have to stop supporting women PhDs, since theycannot find jobs anyway, or they have to work for a betterclimat e amongst the future employers of
micropalaeontologists to meet the needs of femal e
professionals, too . The women also have to work for equal
opportunities -they do not happen ,just like that' , as thepast 30 years have shown.
We can start with looking at ourselves, the INA,
and whether men a nd women contribute and share
responsibility equally.

Why did I not thank her? I do not know. Maybe because
I had moved on to Zurich already ten years before and theyea rs in Copenhagen seemed far away? Maybe because
the chapter was too long already and I had to save space?
Maybe I was simply too exhausted by the time I arrived at
the composition of the acknowledgements to think of morethan the immediate cooperators? If I cannot reconstructthis omission, who will, in 50 or 100 years, when maybe
somebody writes up the history of micropalaeontology?
In conclusion, I suggest we give more thought tothe writing of acknowledgements and, especially, don 't
forget the real contributions of all the women and men thatwere at your side, when , the going was tough' .
Some statistics:
We can analyse the contributions of women and those ofmen to the ,black book' and compare it to previous, similar,
multiauthored books in micropalaeontology. Both in thepresent book and in its predecessor (Lord, 1982), this canonly be found out by somebody who knows the authorsor has the possibility to inquire about the sex of the persons
involved, since first names are not given. For further
comparison, I also analysed Plankton S>tratigraphy by
Bolli et al. (1985), where the two chapters on Mesozoic
and Cenozoic calcareous nannofossils were written by awoman. The results of this analysis are shown in Table 1.
Interestingly, while the number of authors doubled
from Lord ( 1982) to Bown ( 1998), the number of women
involved decreased. We can thus see a ,masculinisation 'of the book-writing. One explanation may be the fact thatthe first book - despite its somewhat misleading title A
Stratigraphical/ndex of Calcareous Nannofossils - wasessentially an edited collection of rewritten theses createdat the Micropalaeontology Unit of University College
London (UCL). The ,black book', instead, is a collection ofchapters written mainly by more-or-less established,
experienced calca reous nannofossil specialists.

Lord (1982)

a:
w
c
z

w
<:J
MEN
WOMEN
TOTAL

Ul

a:

g
c

a:
0

:I:

1::)

Ul

a:
1!:!
Q.

cc
:I:
u

Bown (1998)

Bolli et al. (1985)

Ul

a:
0
!:
c

Ul

a:

a:

w

:I:

Q.

0

1-

::)

1-

~

Ul

:I:

a:
1!:!
Q.

::)

:I:

Ul

a:
0
!:
c

a:
0

1-

cc

w
w
u
cc
u
cc
1
7.5
10
7.3
9
2
3
2
3(25%) 1.5(17%)
4(67%) 5(62%) 1 8 (44%) 8.6 (53%)
12
9
16
1
1
6
8
3
18

w
1

cc

Who did and does what in INA: the gender perspective:
The sciences, and especially the natural sciences, are a
man's world . Accordingly, scientific associations areusually led by men , and most of their officers, board
members etc., if not a ll , are male. In contrast to this generaltrend, INA, the International Nannoplankton Association
has, through its first 20 yea rs of existence since 1977, been
an unusual scientific association in that it has so far had
two female presidents and many female officers andorganisers of conferences. A look at the statistics reveals,
however, that women are slowly on the way out.
rNA was founded in 1977 in The Hague in The
Netherlands and has since grown to be an international
association with 279 members in 45 countries. Amongst
the members we count 28 libraries/companies that are ·Table 1: Men and women as editors and authors and the number ofchapters they wrote in three biostratigra phi c overview books.

It is thus of interest to look into the ,fate ' of theyoung authors of the first book. Who, of these authors of
1982, also contributed to the new volume ( 1998)? We find
only one ofthe two male persons, Jason Crux, who used towork for BP in Surrey and whose address is now at the
Earth Science Department of the University of Caracas in
Venezuela. The other, Alan Lord, was the head of theMicropalaeontology Unit at UCL and is now a professor
and Dean of the Faculty of Mathematical and PhysicalSciences at UCL. Personally I know nothing abo~t thewhereabouts of the three women - none of them kept

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News and Gossip, p. 60 - 73.

interested in our Journal of Nannoplankton Research, apublication (ISSN 121 0-8049) now in its 20th year andhaving undergone a name-change from JNA Newsletter tothe present title, and two facelifts. Already before INA wasofficially founded, meetings were organised by various
persons under different ,umbrellas' on calcareous
nannoplankton. After the foundation of INA , theorganisation of topical and regional meetings was
encouraged and they have been held in addition to thegeneral, worldwide conferences. INAJ-7. During thepresent decade, the European Community has started tosupport scientific projects on calcareous nannoplankton
financially. Who were the organisers?
The 17 events were organised by eight female andnine male persons (where two persons cooperated, they
were counted as 1/2 each). Note that, while women started
out as organisers, more men have taken over in recent
years. The coming INA8, and the three EU/EC-projects,
GEM, EHUX and tl1e presently-running CODENET project,
were/are managed by men.
Generally, more people active at universities or otherscientific institutions organised meetings than thoseworking for oil companies- Shell and BP are representedor geological surveys.
INA has many voluntary jobs and, luckily, both
men and women keep being active. From a. at times. very
c:i
z

YEAR

CONFERENCE

1970 round table1974 consult. group
1977 L-M Cret.
1979 Cret. strat.
1983 mar. pal'env.
19851NA1
1986 workshop
19871NA2
1988 1. Asian
19891NA3
1990 Jur. workshop
1991 INA4
1992 2. Asian
19931NA5
1994 3. Asian, Neog.
19951NA6
19981NA7
2000 INA8

Rome, Italy
Kiel, Germany
Rijswijk, NL
Orleans, France
Utrecht, NL
Vienn a, Austria
Woods Hole, USA
London, UK
Shanghai, China
Firenze, Italy
London, UK
Prague, Czech Republic
Yamagata, Japan
Salamanca. Spain
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Copenhagen, Denmark
La Parguera, Puerto Rico
Bremen, Germany:>
Anna FarinacciuDenise Noel, Kath. Perch-Nielsen u
Ben Prins, Shirley van HeckI
Heleme Manivit
GS
Ton Romein (for RCMNS)u
Katharina Perch-NielsenuMarie-Pierre Aubryu
Shirley van Heck. Jason Crux
I
Wang PinxianuSimonetta MonechiuPaul Bownu
Bohumil Hamrsmid
I
Hisatake OkadauJose-Abel Flaresu
Shirley van Heck
I
David Jutson
GS
AmosWinteruHelmut Willemsu199?·199?
199?-199?
1997-200?

GEM-Project
EHUX
CODE NET

Peter Westbroek
Jeremy Young?
Jeremy Young

ORGANISER

o::;
2:

z

EC
EC
EU

The preliminary conclusions from the above
statistics wot.~ld support findings in other fields, that womenare present and active in new scientific fields in the
beginning and that their numbers then decrease, as thefield becomes established. This has happened in GreatBritain parallel to the development and establishment of
the oil industry in the North Sea, where calcareous
nannofossils can be used - and the export of such knowOFFICE
President
Vice-President
Past President
Bibliographer
Si lico-bibliogr.
Editors

OFFICER, past & present

FEMALE

MALE

(1)
(1)
1

2

1 &(1)

4

1 & (2)7 & (1)1Katharina Perch·Nielsen, Shirley van Heck
David Reimers
Katharina von Salis
S. van Heck, John Steinmetz. Bill Siesser
Aene Almekinders, Stacia Spaulding, Kevin McCartneyS. van Heck, Alan Medd, Jeremy Young, Paul Sown,
Bohumil Hamrsmid, Jackie Bumett

Secret.ffreasurers S. van Heck, Too Romein , Martin Jakubowski,
John Steinmetz, Stephan Root, Magdy Girgis,
Kevin Cooper, Nicky Hine, Mitch Covington,
Matt Hampton, Stacia Spaulding

ODP Correspond. John Firth
Nor'nenclat. Seer. Shirley van Heck
Helen Gillespie
E-maillist org.

(1)
1
6&(2)

TOTAL

17&(1)

Table 3: Female and male INA ollicers through time. Those havi ng
performed different tasks at different times are counted only once
and indicated as () the other times.

how by the companies and consultants involved to otherparts of the world.
Women become more common in fields that men
do not find promising any more, where they follow the
well-known proverb of the rats leaving the sinking ship.
While the women try to save it? We don't know, since atthe time when the proverb probably originated, women
did not work and live on big ships ... Just as they were notallowed to work on oil-rigs more recently and thus could
not get jobs for which they were well-qualified. The latter
was brought to the attention ofthe members of the above
mentioned International Conference on the History of
Geology in Neuchatel on a late-planned poster by Lou
Donovan, a geologist and the wife of a Prof. Emeritus at
UCL, Desmond Donovan. There are many untold stories
around -let's tell them so that, tomorrow rather than in due
ti01e, women get a fairer share of the work out tl1ere.
Refe1·enccs

Bolli , H.M. , Saunders, J.B. & Perch-Nielsen , K . (Eds). 1985.
Plankton Stratigraphy. Cambridge University Press.
Calcareous nannofossils on pp.329-554, 1006-1022 .
Bown, P.R. (Ed.). 1998. Calcareous Nannofossil Biostratigraphy.
Chapman & Hall: 315pp.
Brockmann-Jerosch, H. 1933. Schweizer Ba uemhaus.
Lord, A.R. (Ed.). 1982. A Stratigraphical Index of Ca lcareous
Nan nofossils. Ellis Horwood Ltd.: 192pp.
von Salis, K. 1998. Calcareous Nmmofossil Biostratigraphy
Edited by Paul R. Bown 1998 - a review. Journal of
Nannop lankton Research , 20(2), this volume.
von Salis, K. & Franks-Dollfus, S. 1998. Women in Earth Sciencesin Zurich/Switzerland: why women did not contribute muchto earth sciences until recently.lnterna"t. Comm. on the Historyof Geol. Se., Conference 1998, Neucha tel, Switzerland.
Abstract.

Table 2: Pre-INA conferences/meetings on calcareous
nannoplankton and INA conferences, including regional or topical
workshops organised by IN A, and their organisers. Calcareous
nannoplankton EC/ EU projects without direct INA involvement
but with the participation - also in leading positions (all male) - ofmany INA members. U ~ university based, I ~ industry based, GS ~National Geological Survey based, GEM = Global Emiliania Modelling
Initiative, EHUX = MAST (Marine Science & Tecluwlogy) 11, EC/
EU ~ European Community/Union-fundedsmall committee of three (two women and one man), thecommittee now includes five women and nine men.
The trend thus is the same as for the organisers ofconferences - the women become a minority, although alarge one, after having set out with vigour at the start.

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